
Pictures Sometimes Need More Words and Numbers: Credit Spreads
I lifted this from a recent Financial Times piece. What I will add for the intrepid reader is a longer time horizon. It is correct

I lifted this from a recent Financial Times piece. What I will add for the intrepid reader is a longer time horizon. It is correct

If nothing else but by not being REALLY early. And it’s not fair to whomever they are to suggest that the letter lacks little detail

Yes, there are some people who think it is fun to read the 1977 to 1997 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters on the Beach. It is

This is a speech given in 1998 by Arthur Levitt, the SEC Commissioner. He obviously had a sense of the nature of man and money,


Sometimes you just don’t know people. Or what drives them. And so mistakes can be made when you try to equate what seems to add

In a nutshell, valuations matter. Good past performance tends to attract and avalanche of money which raises the valuation of said investment bucket which steals

Anyone who uses electrical components is a giant importer. This is a good look at what is happening on the border now. Not pretty. To

The trend is the idea that a Board of Directors should effectively pay greenmail to a departing Director in order for him/her to shut their mouths and go away.

And I don’t mean 124 word Tweets. Annual Reports, 10-K’s and Proxies are “basic” and one would think everyone reads them so where is the

From Research Affiliates: Small Caps, Big Opportunities: Investing Beyond Large-Cap Stocks By Que Nguyen, Xi Liu, and Mario Albuquerque In today’s market, the historically wide

I will admit to a man-crush on Fernando. This is on the money if I feel like expressing an opinion on the last week. Spoiler

A few hundred years ago, shortly after beginning Phase II of life as Cove Street Capital, I was “summoned” to a very large allocator organization, after 10 years of annual treks and pitches to zero avail.

At the 2018 Berkshire Annual Meeting, Buffett noted that “multiple times in my life, people have felt the country was more divided than ever….and after

“Buy these X stocks because Y will be elected.” Using the KBW Regional Banking Index (KRX), there was a 20% gain in Q4 2016 on

We have referenced Byrne Hobart’s The Diff newsletter any number of times as well worth reading. He thinks and writes as well as anything I

FTI Consulting August 2024 Newsletter Given the explosive growth of leveraged credit markets over the last decade, the ascendance of private credit, the extreme lengths

this makes CNBC and Bloomberg out to have the credibility of BBC reporting on Gaza.

I don’t know the Verdad people, but they tend to lean toward what we are thinking, so they are obviously smart and worldly people who

Even if one assumes this makes any sense, it will take a really long time to kill off the carbon transportation business.(Cars and Trucks) The

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir on CNBC this week: “I love burning the short sellers. Almost nothing makes a human happier than taking the lines

Statement Dissenting from Approval of Proposed Rule Changes to List and Trade Spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Products


It doesn’t matter whether company size is measured as assets, market value, sales, revenue, or number of employees — bigger firms pay more … way more.

”But what if you found out that key data underlying that breakthrough were actually wrong?” Academic research is fun-ish. A problem with making money from

The idea of regulation and the establishment of a legitimate exchange is to ensure that phony and fraudulent ideas DON’T go public in the first place.

Let’s be clear. Investing money is really about one of at least three things: structuring a pool of capital to meet stated goals, simply making